Orange is the fastest color

Tonight’s theme for the San Jose Bike Party is the Orange Ride. I’m recovering from pneumonia (!) so I won’t be there, but YOU will be and that’s what’s important because you rock.

Edwin has been following the adventures of Scooby, a perpetually shirt-free body builder who travels the world with his Bike Friday. Scooby is now in Laos. I can’t speak to the accuracy of the maps, but my bike routing application does work in the Lao People’s Republic. It appears that OpenStreetMap data for the capital Vientiane is actually more complete than Google Maps, and OSM data includes numerous back alleys and even rice paddy access roads. From this description of cycling in Laos, it seems like biking on the roads is perfectly reasonable in there.

Actually, on this trip he’s wearing shirts to protect himself from mosquitos.

On the European trip he said that if anyone spotted him and gave him a shirt he’d mail them an autographed t-shirt. No one took him up on it, but one fan did give him a German eagle-themed baseball cap to replace the “stupid” bucket hat he wears in all his videos.